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Member News
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Member News: Stories about Willamette Falls
Dede Montgomery, author of “My Music Man,” was filmed by the Willamette Falls Legacy Project in stories about Willamette Falls at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdri5L9pi4M&t=42sDede will share her memoir on Oregon’s February 14 birthday at our Oregon State Capitol, and at the End of the Trail Interpretive Center on March 2. Her Capitol talk and slides will be…
Member News: PDX Writers Winter Workshops
We’ve planned some workshops that will spark excitement and give you fresh eyes as you return to your previous project. Our Elements of Fiction and Critique workshops will give you new insights and inspiration. The Historical Fiction workshop offers prompts, structural support, and facilitator critique. Still stuck on structure? Hammer & Nails is a one-on-one…
Member News: Story of an Unlikely Writer
Philip Kenney’s short essay, “The Story of an Unlikely Writer,” was recently published in the Author Magazine of The Pacific Northwest Writer’s Association. Philip didn’t begin writing until the age of 45. This piece tells the remarkable story of that beginning following a bout with depression and a trial run with Prozac. Read about how…
Member News: THE FIRST LADY OF MODERN ART
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA. December, 2018 Regal House Publishing is pleased to announce the March 15, 2019 release of La Luministe: Berthe Morisot, Painter of Light, about the artist who survived the siege of Paris—and the love of Édouard Manet—to become the sole female founder of the Impressionist movement. If Frida Kahlo was “a ribbon around…
Member News: Scholarship for Writers to Attend AWP 2019
This year, RACC has scholarships to award to 45 writers based in Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties for the 2019 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference and Bookfair at the Oregon Convention Center from March 27-30th. AWP is the largest literary conference for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers across North America, featuring…
Willamette Writers Author Signing: Teresa Klepinger
Teresa Klepinger will be signing books at booth 39 at the Portland Book Festival on November 10th. Teresa Klepinger believes a dose of imagination can improve just about anything. Her love of storytelling began with “Genie” bedtime stories told by her father, continued through years of teaching elementary school, and stays close to her heart…
Willamette Writers Author Signing: C. LaVielle
C. LaVielle will be signing books at booth 39 at the Portland Book Festival on November 10th. I began my grown-up life as a biologist because I was, and still am, fascinated by people, plants, and animals and what makes them tick. I became a wife, a mother, and a healer specializing in tarot divination,…
Willamette Writers Author Signing: Rosemary Douglas Lombard
Rosemary Douglas Lombard will be signing books at booth 39 at the Portland Book Festival on November 10th. Rosemary Lombard, former university teacher, editor, and naturalist, now independent interdisciplinary researcher in animal cognition, brings to her writing decades of surprise and delight exploring turtles’ cognitive potential. Award winner in creative nonfiction and poetry, she has…
Willamette Writers Author Signing: Riley Costello
Riley Costello will be signing books at booth 39 at the Portland Book Festival on November 10th. Riley Costello, an Oregon native, writes the popular lifestyle and fashion blog, sincerelyriley.com. Waiting at Hayden’s is her first novel and the first book where readers can watch scenes unfold and shop the characters’ clothes. Costello coined and branded this…